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The first trailer has appeared for Bruce Springsteen’s High Hopes documentary.
“Why would a grown man of my age go out and exhaust himself? The Boss says of his insatiable appetite for work. “Because he has to!”

The Barretstown children’s charity celebrates its 20th birthday with a video featuring ex-camper Joyce Murphy, the Christchurch Cathedral Girls Choir and a host of musicians and kids who’ve been through the Kildare holiday respite centre performing ‘Dream Baby Dream’, a song from the new Springsteen album, High Hopes.

Bruce Springsteen kicked off his first ever South African gig in Cape Town with a blistering rendition of The Special AKA’s ‘Free Nelson Mandela’, which went down a storm with the sell-out Bellville Velodrome crowd.

It's official – a new Bruce Springsteen album is on the way! Well,'new-ish'. Slated for January, High Hopes will see the New Jersey warhorse blending covers, unrecorded faves and sublime odds 'n' sods from across his career.

Bruce Springsteen has confirmed the January 10 release of High Hopes, his 18th studio album, which is a mix of covers, originals and tunes that have previously been played live but never recorded… until now!

It’s a tale of three cities as our Springsteen diarist Stuart Clark bookends Bruce’s triumphant Irish tour and renews acquaintances with his E Street Band lieutenant Steve Van Zandt, who explains why they’re in the form of their rock ‘n’ roll lives...

Hot Press is delighted to premiere the Suspects & Guests’ take on Bruce Springsteen’s ‘The River’, which has been recorded in support of the Bolger Brothers Tragedy Fund and will be available from iTunes tomorrow.

Waterford’s Propeller Palms, Solar Taxi, Kodakid and The Unusual Suspects have joined forces under the Suspects & Guests banner to record a version of Bruce Springsteen’s ‘The River’ with all proceeds going to The Bolger Brothers Tragedy Fund.

As Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band get ready to invade Ireland again, Brandon Flowers, Clem Burke, Damien Dempsey, Donal Lunny, Noah & The Whale, The Handsome Family and Delorentos declare their love for The Boss...

The new issue of Hot Press is a Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band special containing everything you could possibly want to know about The Boss ahead of his sell-out Limerick, Cork, Belfast and Kilkenny shows.

Bruce and the gang have just unleashed what is their angriest and most politicised record yet, a scathing attack on the railroading of the American Dream by political and corporate fat cats. Stuart Clark journeys to Paris to meet The Boss who also waxes lyrical about Obama, Catholicism, Joe Strummer, Dylan, being a hopeless music fan and why it’ll take four people to replace Clarence Clemons

Bruce Springsteen cancelled his concert early this week at the Sprint Center in Kansas City, Missouri, after a member of the E-Street Band’s road crew was found dead in his hotel room at the InterContinental Hotel.

The Boss is back, and boy is he pissed. Bruce Springsteen uses the language of classic American rock 'n' roll to address the disquiet and despair of the modern-day American nightmare. Hot Press bore witness to a cluster of exclusive warm-up shows in New York and New Jersey.

You know you’ve been to a bloody good Bruce gig when he can omit ‘Born To Run’ or ‘Thunder Road’ and nobody notices. Most of these young whippersnapper acts regard touring as a PR chore. Bruce, on the other hand, treats his job like a vocation.

Meet the new Boss - not the same as the old Boss! Or is he? When you think about it, this is quite possibly the least surprising album of Springsteen’s entire career. Despite his glory days as a rocker beyond compare circa Born To Run/Darkness On The Edge Of Town, he has always been a folk artist, in spirit if not in deed.

Of the dozen or so Springsteen shows I’ve witnessed over the years, this was without doubt the most memorable, and certainly the most emotionally intense of them all. Shorn of the formidable might of the E-Street Band, the man-they-still-call-The-Boss arguably had to work harder than ever. That he pulled it off so successfully in the acoustically-unfriendly environs of The Point was a testament not only to his talent and experience but to his willingness to experiment.

Bruce Springsteen is one of those performing artists who you should see at least once before you die, fan or not. At best, I consider myself to be merely a casual Springsteen follower, yet I felt like I was in safe hands from the moment he stepped onstage at the Pantages Theatre in Los Angeles. and stood amidst the sumptuous drapery and candelabrum.

Maybe the best way to get a handle on Devils & Dust is by process of elimination. In other words, it’s not a big band extravaganza with sax and piano fanfares for the common man. It’s not Human Touch or Lucky Town, both of which suffered from pick-up pros trying to play E Street shuffles, and as any fool knows, the only ones who can do that are the original Jersey shower. Nor is it the bleak and beautiful lunar landscape of America under the Republican gun a la Nebraska. It’s not Tom Joad either, although it does share some of those album’s attributes, namely a writerly rigour with regard to research and character development, plus a slew of wetback protagonists inhabiting southerly borders both geographical and moral.

On the surface, the similarities between Cornershop and the Boss are few, but Springsteen too has been happy to retreat from the world he inhabited around ‘Born In The USA’. 'Devils & Dust' comes straight out of the ‘Nebraska’ /‘Ghost Of Tom Joad’ end of his work and is a towering record, the singer’s powerful talk of gods and devils underpinned by a stark musical background.